When considering the gold price, we often discuss it in regard to times when it perhaps outperformed silver, the S&P 500, or even when it broke new highs. Rarely do we look at gold’s monthly performances and assess what it says about the best time to  read more
Gold was gently levitating once again overnight but in the last few hours both gold and silver have taken off (with the latter breaking through pre-Putin levels) and the former breaking above $1385. Gold is now up 6 weeks in a row - the longest win streak since the run into the Aug 2011 highs. Equity prices are tumbling from solidly green levels overnight -... read more
As the dust settles in the iron ore and copper markets (both metals enjoyed a rise overnight) let’s take a step back and assess the damage. Both metals are heavily involved in China’s credit bubble. That is, traders, speculators and whoever else wanted in on the... read more
As the U.S. economy continues to disintegrate, increasing numbers of investors will be forced to move out of paper assets and into physical gold and silver to protect their wealth.  At first the move will be slow, but as Americans wake up from four decades of fiat monetary amnesia, it will turn into a torrent. Unfortunately, there won’t be much in the way of physical precious metals to... read more
By Henry Bonner Charles Oliver joined Sprott Asset Management LP in January 2008. He focuses on gold and silver investments as a portfolio manager for the Sprott Gold & Precious Minerals Fund and the Silver Equities... read more
On the heels of a wild couple of weeks of trading in global markets, today Canadian legend John Ing stalks about a surprise that may send the gold market soaring this week.  Ing, who has been in the business for 43 years, also discussed the flight into gold around the world.  Below is what Ing had to say in his fascinating interview.
With gold near $1,350, and the world worried about war breaking out in Ukraine, today an acclaimed money manager Stephen Leeb, says: Eric, I’m focused on geopolitical factors and how desperate the West seems to be to keep this world running. Every day that goes by there are more signs of desperation. Putin is giving no sign whatsoever of backing down in Ukraine. It’s very clear that h... read more
An informative video: Research director Alasdair Macleod last week made a presentation to the Brazilian Chamber of Commerce in London about trends in the gold market, covering the long history of central bank intervention, the evidence that Western central bank gold has run out, and Asia's recent acquisition of huge volumes of gold on the eve of the likely bursting of the currency bubble.... read more
Angst in Asia overnight sparked another round of demand for the precious metal pushing gold up over $10 as copper crumbles and Chinese corporate bond markets drop. At $1,363.97, gold is at its highest since September and breaking above its 1-year moving-average.   Intraday gold surged in Asian trading and is now well above the pre-Putin levels... read more
March 10, 2014- London   Lloyds Private Banking via Daily Telegraph Gold retreated in all currencies for a second day after U.S. jobs data was slightly bette... read more